Thank you, and thank you for having us here.
When it comes to the bill itself, we are fully supportive of anything that improves rail safety and gives the minister more regulatory impact on improving rail safety.
When it comes to crossing incidents, it's very impacting on our membership. The devastating effects that the public and the community see with these crossing accidents also deeply impacts our members and their families, and they're lasting affects. One of our highest areas of injury are critical incidents from these crossing accidents. Again, anything that can be done to improve that area would be supported by Teamsters Canada.
With the bill itself, the language is good. When it comes to the changes to sections 31 and 32 of the Railway Safety Act, we prefer the language in Bill C-52. Whether this bill gets picked up and the proposed change to section 9 gets moved to Bill C-52 or you amend this bill with the language from Bill C-52 in regard to sections 31 and 32, we would support either one of those alternatives.